The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol is calling it “the Big Rip Off.”
It says the Trump campaign took $250 million in donations from supporters that it said would go to an election defense fund to pay for legal fees to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. But the fund was never actually created, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, one of the committee members, said Monday in the panel’s second public hearing.
Instead, the money went to the Save America PAC, she said, and the money went from there to several pro-Trump organizations which are headed by former officials close to the Trump circle.
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